Pro Wrestling

For those of you that don’t know I am a huge pro-wrestling fan. WWE, ROH, PWG, New Japan – you name I will watch it. We don’t discuss it much on the podcast but I relate things back to the world of pro wrestling quite often. CM Punk was the only wrestler in WWE to hold my attention for close to a decade as I grew older, and the post-Attitude Era blues settled in. He was great on the mic, better in the...

Legendary WWE commentator and Hall of Famer Jim Ross returns to Submission Radio to discuss the massive event that is UFC 200, the Brock Lesnar vs Mark Hunt fight and how Jim sees it going down, each man’s keys to victory, how long Brock Lesnar has been in training, whether Brock will stick around and have more fights in the future, if Jim was surprised that the WWE and UFC could come to an agreement, if a Lesnar loss hurts...

UFC fighter Conor McGregor and WWE Superstar Sheamus have exchanged blows on Twitter. The two proud Irishmen are major stars in their respective promotions however when asked in a recent interview on ‘SI Now” who would prevail in a street fight between the two McGregor was pretty clear on the outcome. “I would whoop his ass.” McGregor decreed. “This is real here what I do. It would be no contest.” Now of course we all know WWE is not real although the athletes do put...

Ring of Honor Wrestling (ROH) has entered into a strategic agreement with Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) that will enable a select group of ROH contracted stars to appear on the legendary Californian PWG shows. If you haven’t seen any action from PWG before then checkout this classic match featuring the Young Bucks, Candice LeRae and Joey Ryan. This is another key move by ROH and follows the global relationship with NJPW which it has been building for the past two...

WWE have been pushing Roman Reigns as the baby face hero for almost two years now. Unfortunately for WWE CEO Vince McMahon the fans have almost wholehearted rejected it. So why not use the fan heat against Reigns to create a red-hot heel? The problem with Roman Reigns is that wrestling fans see a wrestler being handed everything due to his family lineage – Reigns is first cousin of the Rock (Dwayne Johnson). For fans this can be the only reason...

WWE Top 10 takes you back to this week’s SmackDown to revisit the show’s most thrilling, physical and controversial moments. Yes, the Gobbledygooker returns to WWE and Sheamus in the WWE Champion. Alternative realities do seem to exist. I must be in one. This is something else. What has happened to WWE Smackdown? WWE Fix...

Wrestling fans will know how good Kevin Steen (Kevin Owens in WWE) is in the squared circle. He has single handedly rejuvenated my interest in WWE but still something is missing. Here are 95 moves that make fans ponder just how good WWE could be if the wrestlers were able to use their...

PWG (Pro Wrestling Guerrilla) is the wrestling promotion everyone should be watching. It is super difficult to get here in Australia but well worth the effort. Here Kevin Steen (Kevin Owens) puts in stellar commentary performance as high spots rain from the skies. WWE take note – this is pro wrestling and it’s...

Pro wrestling has excited crowds for many decades. For me though the greatest era of wrestling was during the era of the monday night wars when WCW and WWE (WWF) were kings of the sqaured circle. The late 90’s and early 2000’s produced some of the best storylines and moments in the history of pro wrestling. This top 10 list isn’t a defintive list but merely the top 10 moment which have stuck in my memory as wrestling fan. These...